A U.S. pilot died in a plane crash in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday.

According to a NATO International Security Assistance Force news release, the site of the plane crash was located and the pilot's remains recovered:

While the cause of the crash is under investigation, initial reporting indicates there was no insurgent activity in the area at the time of the crash.

It is ISAF policy not to ...

A post office in the hometown of fallen Camp Pendleton Marine Lance Cpl. Victor A. Dew is being named this morning in his honor.

The House of Representatives unanimously approved a resolution to dedicate the Granite Bay Post Office in memory of Dew, according to a U.S. Post Office news release. Dew grew up in the Northern California town, and graduated from Granite Bay High School in 2008.

Dew ...

As the withdrawal of U.S. forces continues in Afghanistan, hot meals are being replaced by MREs (meals ready-to-eat). In response, a group of military moms has started a Facebook site called "Breakfast for Bagram," to send breakfast foods to troops overseas.

According to Stars and Stripes, the U.S. military has put in place "sweeping changes" as it prepares for the December 31, 2014 deadline to leave Afghanistan. As ...

Roughly 70 California Army National Guard soldiers from the San Diego-based 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team will leave Tuesday for a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, according to a National Guard news release.

Before arriving in Afghanistan, the 79th IBCT soldiers will first train at Camp Shelby in Mississippi.

The job of the unit, once in Afghanistan, will be to mentor fellow soldiers in the Afghan National Security Force, according to ...

Army Sgt. Michael Cable, whose death was reported last week by the Department of Defense as the result of "an attack by enemy forces," was actually stabbed to death by an Afghan teenager, according to an exclusive report by the Associated Press.

Two unnamed senior U.S. officials told the Associated Press that Cable, 26, was killed March 27 when an Afghan teenager stabbed him in the neck. Cable was ...

Army Sgt. Michael C. Cable, 26, died March 27 from injuries sustained when his unit was attacked by enemy forces in Shinwar District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense.

Cable was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell in Kentucky.

Cable was from Philpot, Kentucky. The Messenger-Inquirer.com reports he was a cross-country running ...

Fallen Twentynine Palms Marine Lance Cpl. Jason Barfield was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star with Combat Valor March 7, 2013, on what would've been his 24th birthday.

Home Post readers may remember Barfield as the Marine who surprised his sister at school before Christmas 2010, less than a year prior to his death in Afghanistan on October 24, 2011. That heartwarming - and ultimately heartbreaking - reunion was captured on video ...

Army Sgt. Tristan M. Wade, 23, died March 22 in Qarah Bagh District, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device, according to the Department of Defense.

Wade was assigned to the 573rd Clearance Company, 2nd Engineer Battalion at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

Monte Marlin, White Sands chief of public affairs, told the El Paso Times:

"Our hearts are collectively broken ...

SAN DIEGO -- The sailor had been back from war for just over a year when friends invited him to watch an unusually emotional training exercise for troops preparing to deploy.

The drill happened not on a military base but at a film studio, where Marine and Navy medics role-played wartime rescue missions with actors who had, in real-life, lost limbs in motorcycle or car accidents or to ailments such as ...

Sgt. 1st Class James F. Grissom, 31, died March 21 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, of wounds he suffered from small arms fire March 18 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense.

Grissom was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports Grissom was a 1999 graduate of Mt. Eden High ...

For the second time in a week, a helicopter crash in Afghanistan has had fatal consequences for U.S. forces. The crash Saturday of an OH-58 Kiowa killed one U.S. service member and injured another.

The Department of Defense reports Chief Warrant Officer James E. Groves III, 37, died Saturday in an incident that's "under investigation." A DoD official told Ohio television station WTDN that Groves, a Kiowa ...

Army Spc. David T. Proctor, 26, died March 13 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland from non-combat related injuries he suffered in Afghanistan on March 3, according to the Department of Defense.

Proctor was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armor Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart in Georgia.

Proctor was from Greensboro, North Carolina. TheCoastalSource.com reports Proctor was ...

Navy Chief Petty Officer Christian Michael Pike, 31, died in Landstuhl, Germany on March 13 from injuries he suffered in Afghanistan on March 10, according to the Department of Defense.

Pike was assigned to a West Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit, and the Los Angeles Times reports he deployed to Afghanistan with a Coronado-based Navy SEAL team.

Pike grew up in Peoria, Arizona. His mother, Diana, works for the Fox ...

The families and friends of several of the soldiers who died in Tuesday's Black Hawk helicopter crash in Afghanistan are speaking out about the loved ones they lost.

The Department of Defense has not released yet the names of the five soldiers who were killed when their UH-60 Black Hawk went down in Southern Afghanistan.

But loved ones are talking to their local media outlets about some of the ...